Two guys rubbing dicks is male/male, but does not involve either of them penetrating the other. One guy giving another a handjob is male/male, but does not involve either penetrating the other. The same can be said of tailsex between two guys, a guy giving another guy a footjob, and plenty of other things. PLUS, male/male is not exclusively for sex between two guys in the first place, two guys on a date, kissing, hugging in a non-platonic way, holding hands, or otherwise doing anything romantic with no sex involved, all also count as male/male.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the it's male_penetrating_male that implicates male/male, not the other way around. As in, if one male is penetrating another male, it's safe to assume that the post contains male/male content.

...it seems you're right, and I was just confused. But...now I'm even more confused for an entirely different reason. It appears the system auto-added the male_penetrating_male tag to an image I recently edited, because I do NOT remember adding it manually...

jacob said:
...it seems you're right, and I was just confused. But...now I'm even more confused for an entirely different reason. It appears the system auto-added the male_penetrating_male tag to an image I recently edited, because I do NOT remember adding it manually...

That's pretty strange. male_penetrating_male isn't implicated by anything, and only has a couple of rather uncommon aliases.
Could you link the post in question?

bitwolfy said:
That's pretty strange. male_penetrating_male isn't implicated by anything, and only has a couple of rather uncommon aliases.
Could you link the post in question?

Sure thing. And, I mean, it's not like it's not appropriate, it definitely does depict what the tag says. But, as I say, I don't remember adding it.

I'd assume it's just one of those tag changes that don't show up in the edit history until the next person makes an edit. I'm not 100% on the mechanics around that though, I thought that mostly happens with tags that have had a new alias/implication go through, but clearly that hasn't happened here.
I thought for a moment that listing edit mode bypassed the edit logs but that's not it either.

Thread title feels a bit misleading at the moment to be honest.

can we get an example as to where you experienced this?

This is a trait that happens to certain posts that had a script run to mass tag edit posts that were missing penetration tags. The tags got updated, but it waits until the next person to edit to show that update as a change. But that only happens if the original penetration tag remained unchanged. If you were to remove them in the edit, because they were added by mistake, the script would not try to add the new tag.